At Film International, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas writes about The Substance (2024): “I live a very different life from Elisabeth Sparkle and–for that matter–from Demi Moore. But despite the fantastic excesses of Coralie Fargeat’s slick cinema du look body horror, in many ways I don’t think I have ever felt […]
The Projection Booth podcast celebrates the films of Whoopi Goldberg with a whole month of Whoopbruary: Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986); Burglar (1987); Fatal Beauty (1987); and, Theodore Rex (1996)! Listen to the whole shebang here.
There is an excellent piece on Christopher Nolan by Will Lloyd at The New Statesman. “Everyone knew the pecking order at Haileybury and Imperial Service College. The hierarchy was built into the boarding school’s dormitories. Long wooden-floored barracks, under low ceilings, without any decoration. Two parallel rows of […]
At RogerEbert.com, Marya E. Gates interviews Pamela Anderson. “I remember when I was five years old, I would think I just needed to get older so I could recognize myself. And it took me, you know, 50 years, but now I do feel comfortable in my own skin. […]
Enjoy this salvaged 1984 performance of Yukio Ninagawa’s Medea! The peformances, costumes and design are incredible. “This is an RF-rip of Yukio Ninagawa’s 1984 performance of Medea, aka, 王女メディア. Released by Toho video only on VHS….This performance itself was referenced in an episode of Chris Marker’s The Owl’s […]
At Film Freak Central, Walter Chaw watches Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu (USA, 2024) with David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method (Canada, 2011). “Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is another shot at the same topic, using not a ghost haunting us from the past as a metaphor for the libidinous violence of men […]